What fuck is this crap?

I copy this directly from the pages of WikiPedia:

Reinforcing the relative decline in U.S. power and the dissatisfaction of Europe and Japan with the system was the continuing decline of the dollar—the foundation that had underpinned the post-1945 global trading system. The Vietnam War and the refusal of the administration of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson to pay for it and its Great Society programs through taxation resulted in an increased dollar outflow to pay for the military expenditures and rampant inflation, which led to the deterioration of the U.S. balance of trade position. In the late 1960s, the dollar was overvalued with its current trading position, while the Deutsche Mark and the yen were undervalued; and, naturally, the Germans and the Japanese had no desire to revalue and thereby make their exports more expensive, whereas the U.S. sought to maintain its international credibility by avoiding devaluation. Meanwhile, the pressure on government reserves was intensified by the new international currency markets, with their vast pools of speculative capital moving around in search of quick profits.

Let me make it clearer: Viet Nam = Iraq/GWOT, Mark = Euro, Great Society = Economic Stimulus, Shitty Dollar and declining American Esteem = Shitty Dollar and declining American Esteem

This might be an old commercial, but since I don’t watch much TV, I am only seeing it now. It is from IBM and it is a perfect picture of my work day, especially of late.

Hope is defined as ‘a wish or desire accompanied by confident expectation of its fulfillment.’

It is not clear to me how the ugliest and most wasteful vehicle ever made, one that goes against every reasonable trend in the world, is the root cause of why we are fighting a war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and funds terrorism by funneling our dollars to Arab extremists is in anyway shape or form resembling any kind of hope. However, Hummer believes I am wrong.

And best of all, there are people out there who think they are doing a good thing by being hyperconsuptive and supporting terrorism.

Did it ever occur to these dim witted Hummer owners that the disasters they are helping us with have been caused by sprawl that most of them live in and the CO2 emissions of their hyper consumptive lifestyles?

Just pathetic and disgusting.

The Vatican - the most antiquated and irrelevant institution left over from the middle ages! How you amuse! So the Palestinians have a right to return to Israel, do they? That is a wonderful sentiment! When will you return what you stole from Israel? When will you aid in the reclamation of Jewish lands stolen by the Arabs? Or those taken by your charges the Spanish? Or the Germans (of which your leader is one vile specimen!).

Do us all a favor and shut up. We are reminded that people who live in thieving class kid toucher houses shouldn’t throw stones.

WAKE UP PEOPLE! Watch Frontline

Iran, Iraq, Global Warming, Technology Gap, Drugs for Kids, Suburban Despair, Lawlessness of USA, Katrina, White House as THE SEAT OF ALL EVIL, WHO WILL WE VOTE FOR? WHAT KIND OF NATION WILL BE?

I listen to a podcast called The War on Democracy and today they were talking about this movie on Google Video. You simple must see it. Now that the election cycle is drawing near, expect more “WAKE THE FUCK UP AMERICA!” type posts.

A quote from the man who made it:

“The film tells a universal story, analysing and revealing, through vivid testimony, the story of great power behind its venerable myths. It allows us to understand the true nature of the so-called war on terror”.

It is worth the watch to see successive Republican presidents shutdown!

Our own good old American ineptitude is! All you have to do is look at how our infrastructure is crumbling around us:

• Huge steam pipe bursts in Manhattan
• ConEd has constant power distribution issues
• Water pipes are over taxed
• Bridges are falling down

But meanwhile billions to improve some other nation we should have left alone, billions chasing some guy in the mountains of a country we shouldn’t even speak to all to protect us from terrorism.

None of this will protect us from our own greed and ineptitude. Turbo capitalism is consuming us all.

From YNet this morning, an uplifting and thoughtful decision on gender roles:

…prominent Zionist-religious leader explained that women are allowed to study specific verses from the Gemara, which deal with “subjects related to them,” but they “shouldn’t study Gemara like men.”

What is there to say about this? I do indeed believe in family roles, but the issue isn’t who does the job it is getting the job done. Who cares if the man takes care of the children, makes Shabbat meals, and mends ballet dresses while the wife reads Gemara, davens, and reads from the Torah? For that matter who cares if there are 3 wives and 1 husband, or 3 husbands? Kids need all the input and supervision they can get to offset the degenerate culture they grown up in.

Worst of all, crap like this makes middle of the road Jews move more off the road and gives 100% secular Jews another reason to dismiss their faith as anachronistic.

Can we get past some of the old-school bullshit? Oh and in case you don’t know who the Zionist-religious folks are, they are the ones who brought you the settlements.

Welly, welly, welly, it would appear that the centerpiece of one the worlds great faiths is a fraud. Are we shocked? No. What, pray tell, might force the doctrine of infallibility and the fundamentalist evangelical movement into a seizure?

The discovery of Jesus’ tomb, complete with bones of his family. Yes, Jesus was a man with a penis and desires - normal things for a man - and appears to have sired one if not more children. Which, if you know anything about being a Jew, is one of the primary reasons for being alive, to have children. And again, it is IMPOSSIBLE for Jesus to have been the scholar he is purported to be with out being a married man. Simply impossible.

But more importantly, he was not resurrected and did not ascend to heaven magically. Now nuns can stop slapping little kids who ask what happened to Jesus’ body.

Moreover, I want to be clear about why this discovery is of particular importance. It may, finally, force Christians to admit what Jews have known forever, the scripture is not to be taken literally, a myth is a myth with deeper aggadic, metaphorical, & instructional purposes, and you owe us all a huge apology for the crusades.